Re: Soft freeze for the glibc-2.44 release

Adhemerval Zanella Netto <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
Organization Linaro
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 22/06/26 11:09, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Dear all, 
> 
> as of two days ago we're in the soft freeze phase for the upcoming glibc-2.44 release.
> 
> * No *starting* of new features for 2.44 anymore
> * Decisions on what of the ongoing work goes still into 2.44 and what not
> * Review and addition of patches 
> 
> Please respond with your requests which features or fixes should still go in, 
> and/or add them to the wiki page under blockers or desirables (unless they are
> already listed there):
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.44#Planning
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Andreas
> 
> ******
> 20 June 2026: Soft freeze
>     No *starting* of new features anymore
>     Decisions on what goes still in and what goes not
>     Review and addition of patches 
> 
> 4 July 2026: Freeze
>     Machine testing
>     Bug fixes without large impact
>     No ABI changes without RM discussion
>     High risk bug fixes should be discussed on the list. 
> 
> 18 July 2026: Hard freeze
>     Only critically important or technically straightforward bug fixes
>     Release can happen when things are ready 
> 
> 1 Aug 2026 (or ideally a bit earlier): Release 
> ******
> 

Hi Andreas,

There some patches in my backlog that I would like to install for 2.44:

[1] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/[email protected]/
[2] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/[email protected]/
[3] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=63231
[4] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=63249

The [1] only affects the benchtests so it should safe, the [2] only affects
sparc and fix a long-standing issue.  The [3] is just a new definition from
newer kernels, not strictly required but is a missing spot to the v7.1
sync.

The [4] is the system-wide tunables fix already, they are already R-B
by DJ.
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